POEMS OF THE WAR BY GEORGE H. BOKER. BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. 1864. 1st edition: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by GEORGE H. BOKER, in the Clerk s Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, CAMBRIDGE. CONTENTS. PAGE INVOCATION 7 POEMS OF THE WAR. THE RIDE TO CAMP . ; . . ; . . . . . 13 UPON THE HILL BEFORE CENTREVILLE . . . . .30 ZAGONYI . 48 ON BOARD THE CUMBERLAND ... ... . 51 THE SWORD-BEARER 61 THE BALLAD OF NEW ORLEANS / . . . .66 THE VARUNA . . . ,. . . . . 80 THE CROSSING AT FREDERICKSBURG . . . . .82 HOOKER s ACROSS ! 88 ERIC, THE MINSTREL .. f ..... 90 THE BLACK REGIMENT . . . . . . . 99 BEFORE VICKSBURG ........ 104 THE BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN .... 107 IN THE WILDERNESS . . . . . . . ^ . 116 ODE TO AMERICA . . . . 7 ... 120 OREMUS 129 AD POETAS . . . . . . . . 133 THE FLAG . 136 Vi CONTENTS. DRAGOON S SONG 138 LANCEK S SONG . . . 140 CAVALRY SONG . . . 142 MARCH ALONG . . 144 THE FREE FLAG ......... 147 SONG FOR THE LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE . . . 150 A BATTLE HYMN 153 HYMN FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1863 . . . 156 SONNETS. " BLOOD, BLOOD ! " . 160 "On! CRAVEN, CRAVEN!" ..... 162 "BRAVE COMRADE, ANSWER!" 164 GRANT . . . ..166 DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER . . ... . 168 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. PRINCE ADEB 173 AEON S CHARITY 186 IDLENESS 191 WINTER WINDS . 194 ELISHA KENT KANE . .196 DIRGE 200 ;::: You will love this book.A wonderful collection of civil war poems and songs.. Condition is Very Good inside and out.. I have only taken a couple of photos of the Black Regiment poem. He is the complete poem...THE BLACK REGIMENT. Ah ! and they meant the word, Not as with us tis heard, Not a mere party shout : They gave. their spirits out ; Trusted the end to God, And on the gory sod ;;;;;; Rolled in triumphant blood. Glad to strike one free blow, Whether for weal or woe ; Glad to breathe one free breath, Though on the lips of death. Praying alas ! in vain ! That they might fall again, So they could once more see That burst to liberty ! This was what " freedom " lent To the black regiment. ;;;;;;;;;;;; Hundreds on hundreds fell ; But they are resting well ; Scourges and shackles strong Never shall do them wrong. 0, to the living few, Soldiers, be just and true ! Hail them as comrades tried ; Fight with them side by side ; Never, in field or tent, Scorn the black regiment ! ::::::::: about the author..The American Civil War not only turned Boker's pen to the Union Cause, but changed him politically from a Democrat to a staunch Republican. In fact, his name is closely interwoven with the rehabilitation of the Republican party in Philadelphia. His volume "Poems of the War," was issued in 1864.
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Very good copy given its age, spine faded, cover less so. Signed by Boker: "To Charles A. Dana, Esq., with the sincere regards of his friend Geo H. Boker, Sept.14, 1864."
George Henry Boker, born in Philadelphia and educated at Princeton, initially trained to be an attorney but instead chose to pursue a career as a poet and playwright.
Most widely known of the patriotic verse he wrote during the Civil War was his ``Black Regiment'' (celebrating the charge of the Negro troops at Port Hudson in 1863), which moved Oliver Wendell Holmes to write him an enthusiastic note of praise.
In later life he published two volumes of poetry, wrote a number of plays, six of which were produced, and served as United States Minister to Turkey and to Russia.
While Boker continued his writing, the later years of his life were spent as a diplomat, serving as a United States envoy to both Turkey and Russia.
Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and government official, best known for his association with Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War and his aggressive political advocacy after the war
